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University of Toronto's ProctorU Deployment Reportedly Disadvantaged BIPOC Students During Exam Check-Ins
- Occurred
- Jun 1, 2020
- Published
- Feb 2, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
University of Toronto students reported that ProctorU and other online exam-monitoring services created discriminatory and stressful check-in experiences for BIPOC students during remote exams. One U of T student said ProctorU's identity-verification process often failed to recognize her passport, forcing manual checks and consuming exam check-in time. ProctorU said human proctors made final identity and integrity decisions.
Developers
- ProctorU
Deployers
- University of Toronto
Harmed parties
- University students
- University of Toronto students
- Students
- Educational communities
- Students of color
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves discriminatory outcomes from facial recognition technology affecting BIPOC students.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8